356 MONOCOTYLEDONEJE. ARTHRAXON. 
Australia : New England (Stuart.). — Var. tenellus Benth. 1. c. ex 
Queensland videtur status anomalus. 
Subsp. b. submuticus. Culmi e nodis superioribus et inferioribus, 
nec vero ex intermediis ramosi. Laminz ovata, breviter acuminata, 
1,5—2 em. longs, 0,8—1,2 em. lat, rigidze, utrinque glabr& v. pilis 
deciduis adsperss. Spies binæ v. terne, graciles, 2 em. longae; arti- 
culi spieule ?/, zequantes ; spicule 5 mm. long&; gluma IV* aristam 
rectam ipsa breviorem exserens. Anther® 3 mm. longs. Pedicellus 
sterilis */,—?/, spieule æquans, eglumis, glaber. — Batratherum sub- 
muticum Nees ! ap. Steud. Synops. 1, p. 382; Andropogon submuticus 
Steud. 1. c.; Arthraxon submuticus Hochst. in Flora 1856, p. 188. 
Nepal (Wall. 8836). 
Subsp. €. nudus. Spicis crebris, terminalibus subpaniculatis, spicu- 
lis parvulis (3 mm. longis). — Batratherum nudum Nees ! ap. Steud. 
Synops. 1, p. 383; Andropogon nudus Steud. 1. e.; Arthraxon nudus 
“Hochst. in Flora 1856, p. 188. — Culmi elatiores (10 cm. alti), ex 
omnibus nodis florifero-ramosi. Laminz lanceolatz v. ovato-lanceola- 
te, 3—8 cm. longs, 9—20 mm. late, flaccidulz, præter marginem 
ciliatum glaberrimæ. Spies in ramis floriferis pauciores, in apice culmi 
erebi, in paniculam ramulis inferioribus 2—6-spicatis dispositz, gra- 
cillimze, 2,5—4 cm. longe, pallide virides ; articuli spicula paullo—'/, 
breviores. Gluma I™ non nisi ad nervos exteriores aculeolata, IV* 
7—8 mm. longam exserens. Antherz 0,5 mm. long. Pedi- 
cellus sterilis spicula 4-plo brevior. 
India or. pr. Tavoy (Wall. 8835 A, forma major) et pr. Hud 
(8835 B forma minor); ad zstuarium fl. Irawaddi (8834); in mont. 
Khasia reg. temp. (Hook. f. et Thoms.). 
B. Ehacheos articuli (saltem superiores) plus minus ciliati. 
Subsp. d. Quartinianus; culmis ex omnibus nodis florifero-ramosis; 
rhacheos artieulis (saltem superio bus ad apicem auque dua 
Var. &, Quartinianus s. str. ; laminis ut basi 
conspersis ; articulis ?/, sends tequantibus ; spiculis 4,5—5 mm. lon- 
gis, pedicello sterili nullo. — Alectoridia Quartiniana A. Rich. Tent. 
Fl. Abyss. 2, p. 448, t. 99; Pleuroplitis plumbea Nees! ap. Steud. 
Synops. 1, p. 414 et P. violacea Nees! 1. c. (charactere falso distincta); 
P. Quartiniana Regel in Bull. Ac. Petersb. 5 (1866), p. 757 ; P. ciliata 
J. Schmidt, Beitr. z. Fl. Capverd. p. 152; Andropogon Alectoridia 
